Help - setting up website for edit by novices

You could incorporate Javascript with a xml file that contains the postings and the javascript parser/switch to view and change post. It's kinda annoying to do though. I did it for a photo viewer and kept getting weird gliches when dealing with the parser. And the xml can get confusing after a while.

A cleaner method (and less annoying on both ends) would be use div to place the text in, but even then the un-code-savvy person would have to search through your code to find where to put what they want to post. Or it they used an editor it would mess your code.

A blog engine would work, but that would defeat the purpose of your code.

That's all I got...

A WYSIWYG editor (don't kill me)
Now serious, you could make a custom non-WYSIWYG editor (in AHK for example) that would only write <p></p> to a specific area of the code, for example, delimited with:

<!-- [CUSTOMCODE - START] -->
<p>...</p>
<!-- [CUSTOMCODE - END] -->

Or, you could teach the person to write <p> to begin a paragraph and </p> to end on between some comments on the code, like this:

<!-- #################### EDIT ONLY FROM THIS LINE FORWARD ################### -->
<p>...</p>
<!-- #################### DO NOT EDIT BEYOND THIS LINE #################### -->

If I have any more ideas I'll tell you.